Dr. Phil was near stunned connected Sunday arsenic he joined Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan to detain an amerciable who said helium was 'not really' a sex offender.
The 74-year-old tv big grilled the alleged enactment transgression handcuffed close connected the thoroughfare successful Chicago as agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement rounded up undocumented migrants.
Dr. Phil claimed connected societal media that the antheral apprehended was a 'convicted enactment offender and net predator from Thailand.' He included a video of the man's arrest.
The detainee said helium had ne'er been deported before, and stated that his parent is simply a citizen, erstwhile the tv scientist revealed helium had been convicted of enactment crimes involving children.
But erstwhile Dr. Phil asked Sam whether helium had been charged for enactment crimes, helium simply replied: 'Not really.'
'Not really?!' a stunned Dr. Phil replied.
'I'm not a sinner, I'm gonna speech to my lawyer,' the migrant said successful the video.
Homan past told his agents: 'Let's instrumentality him in, process him, and fastener him up'
Raids were besides conducted successful Denver, Colorado; Austin, Texas; San Jose, California; Los Angeles, California; San Antonio, Texas; Miami, Florida; Detroit, Michigan, Omaha, Nebraska; Phoenix, Arizona; Atlanta, Georgia and New Jersey, according to NewsNation.
The archetypal migrant arrested successful ICE raids crossed Chicago connected Sunday was Seda Sam, from Thailand
Dr. Phil revealed that Sam was a 'convicted enactment offender and net predator'
In total, determination were 956 migrants apprehended connected Sunday alone, pursuing the apprehension of astir 1,300 radical connected Thursday.
Dr. Phil seemed to person been near shocked by what helium had witnessed.
'Again, the downfall, the occupation with a sanctuary metropolis is that radical similar this are walking the thoroughfare alternatively than instrumentality enforcement moving with national agents,' Homan said.
'This is what we're dealing with.'
In a abstracted clip, Dr. Phil could beryllium seen speaking with Homan astir the arrest.
'He shouldn't adjacent beryllium here, but he's doing this,' Homan added, noting that cipher successful the assemblage alerted authorities to say, "Hey there's idiosyncratic who doesn't adjacent person the close to beryllium present that's preying connected our children."'
Homan past agreed, noting that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson 'want to vilify the men of ICE.
'ICE saved children contiguous and it makes maine angry,' Homan said, mentioning that the politician claimed national officials were astatine a schoolhouse connected Friday, though that was aboriginal proven to beryllium false.
Border Czar Tom Homan joined ICE agents and officers with the Drug Enforcement Agency to behaviour raids successful the Windy City
Homan said determination were 300 targets the national authorities identified successful Chicago and its surrounding areas
Among those arrested were enactment offenders, convicted murderers and astatine slightest 5 Tren de Aragua members
'He's scaring children,' Homan said. 'He's scaring the neighborhood, putting fearfulness successful the community.
'We're doing the nonstop opposite, we're redeeming children.'
Sam was reportedly 1 of 300 targets the national authorities identified successful Chicago and its surrounding areas, including 150 that had antecedently been successful constabulary custody, Homan told Dr. Phil.
The alleged borderline czar told NewsNation's Ali Bradley that aggregate 'public information threats' were arrested, including enactment offenders, convicted murderers and astatine slightest 5 Tren de Aragua members.
It was the archetypal raid of the caller Trump medication successful the nation's third-largest city, wherever section and authorities officials person vowed not to enactment with migration officials.
As the raids were ongoing Sunday, Chicago Mayor Johnson adjacent assured the nationalist connected societal media that the section constabulary section were not involved.
Gov. Pritzker besides appeared connected CNN's State of the Union and reiterated that section constabulary 'will not coordinate with national officials connected the apprehension of radical without a warrant.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents sound connected the doorway of a residence during a multi-agency targeted enforcement cognition successful Chicago connected Sunday
Homan insisted that the ICE raid was targeted, with agents going aft circumstantial targets
'Our section officials are not conscionable going to say, "Well that idiosyncratic seems similar they're undocumented, truthful we're going to manus them implicit to you and you tin fig it out,"' helium said.
But, helium said helium agreed that convulsive criminals who are undocumented should beryllium deported.
'Now what they're besides doing, though, and it's rather disturbing is they're going aft radical who are law-abiding who are holding down jobs, who person families here, who whitethorn person been present for a decennary oregon 2 decades and they're often our neighbors and our friends,' the politician said.
'And wherefore are we going aft them? These are not radical who are causing problems successful our country?' helium claimed.
But Homan insisted successful the video with Dr. Phil that the ICE raid was a targeted raid.
'We walk a batch of clip investigating these people, we cognize precisely who we're looking for - truthful it's a people enforcement operation, it's the close happening to do,' helium said, noting that ICE agents are inactive prohibited from going into people's houses without a transgression apprehension warrant.
The Trump medication has reportedly directed ICE to summation the fig of regular arrests
Still, the fig of arrests successful the archetypal 3 days of Trump's presidency represents about 1.1 percent of the full arrests ICE made successful fiscal twelvemonth 2024, erstwhile the section was making an mean of astir 310 arrests each day.
Authorities are present making an mean of astir 433 arrests each day, but ICE officials person been directed by the Trump medication to summation the fig of regular arrests to 1,200 to 1,500, according to the Washington Post.
The paper reported that Trump was disappointed with the deportation run truthful far, citing 4 radical with cognition of the briefings.
He besides wanted ICE tract offices to marque 75 arrests each day, with managers held accountable for missing their quota targets.